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    "id": 553569,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I could not have given more support to the issues that the Chairman of my Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations has stated. I think one of the very subtle issues that I would want you in your ruling to touch on--- Hon. Musyimi is a man we highly respect, and I want to say that we are not passing any judgment, or doubting his credentials in terms of integrity. What we want him to understand is that when you make a ruling, and we sit in a Committee, we discuss critical issues; we make recommendations. The Constitution and Standing Orders state that the Budget and Appropriations Committee should take account of those recommendations. We have had close to 15 meetings in hotels and restaurants discussing budgets of different Ministries and departments. For Hon. Musyimi to say that he can disregard them, and that he is not under any obligation to take what we have recommended to him, and he can make a decision as he may wish, or if he has consulted the Executive--- I think he misunderstands the responsibilities and the role that we, as Members of this House, are supposed to play. The other issue I would like to say is that I believe there was a reason why the drafters of the Constitution said that Parliament shall, through its Committees sit, deliberate and make recommendations, which shall then be taken to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Hon. Speaker, the last point I want to make is, do not forget that the decision or ruling you are going to make today is also going to affect how the county governments departments within the county executives are going to manage their budgets. This is because what this will mean is that a budget chair says that the county assembly has sat down and passed recommendations and given those recommendations to the Chairman of the Budget Committee, but he can disregard whatever they have said. Essentially what we are saying is that we need to introduce due diligence. We need to make sure that the recommendations we make, as the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations has said, are discussed. The Government needs to start buying its property so that our ambassadors can stay within the premises owned by the Kenyan Government. Why are we renting houses? When we"
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